Microsoft has recently added the ability to have "Focus" sessions to their Windows 11 operating system. When enabled, these effectively shut out the noise of emails and other notifications for a set amount of time to allow you to fully focus on a specific task. This month's HowTo explores this feature.

Any users of Microsoft's spreadsheet app that deal with datasets that include phone numbers will at some point have run into a problem in which Excel treats a phone number as a "real" number and therefore removes the first zero. Here's our guide on how to prevent this.

Most of us will have been told that we're just about to run out of storage space on our PC at some point. The question then becomes "what is using that space and where is it". Windows 11 now has a nifty feature that can help track down the largest files.

While many of the features in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software involve maths to some degree or another, one handy feature you may not know about is the ability to create a column that includes custom text combined with data from cells in your file.

A couple of months ago, in our article about Microsoft's plan to encrypt all new Windows PC by default starting with the latest feature update, we promised we'd create a guide on determining whether your machine is encrypted and how to find the recovery key that it's critical you keep a note of. So here it is!

In the last of our Microsoft 365 Copilot specific guides for now, we will take a look at what the new AI tools bring to the venerable email app Outlook. Could it start writing all your emails for you? Maybe...

We continue our quest to rattle through each 365 app and give a flavour of what assistance Microsoft's Copilot AI can provide to you. This month, let's take a look at Powerpoint.

We're going to have a look at the current Copilot integration in Microsoft Excel this month for those that already have access to this or are intrigued about the sorts of things it's possible to do with it. Let's dive in...